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Gregory A. Haile, Esq.General Counsel and Vice President for Public Policy and Government Affairs

Gregory A. Haile, Esq., is the General Counsel and Vice President for Public Policy and Government Affairs for Broward College. Mr. Haile was educated at the Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the National Black Law Journal and as an Editor of the Journal on Gender and Law. He received his bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University, where he graduated magna cum laude and was selected from among more than 13,000 students as the most outstanding undergraduate in his college. Mr. Haile joined Broward College after starting his legal career as a corporate litigator. Further, Mr. Haile teaches a 4 credit course in Higher Education Law and Policy at Harvard University (Summer School). He previously served as an adjunct professor with Broward College teaching Business Law and Ethics and Miami Dade College teaching Business Law. He is also a fellow of the Vanderbilt University Higher Education Management Institute.

In 2011, Mr. Haile became the first in-house chief legal counsel for Broward College, which has approximately 4,000 employees and approximately 63,000 students. He oversees broad-ranging legal issues relating to tax, immigration, employment, labor, copyright, real estate, construction, tenure, FERPA, and numerous other areas. He has also developed and oversees Broward College’s centralized compliance committee serving in partnership with more than a dozen divisions throughout Broward College. Further, he oversees all local, statewide, and federal government affairs for Broward College, including advocating before local political leaders, state legislators, and members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate to enhance their understanding of higher education issues, the impact of potential or pending legislation on institutions of higher education, and the impact of Broward College on the community at-large. He has developed relationships resulting in visits from leaders from U.S. Presidential administrations, as well as other national and statewide political leaders from both major political parties. He also helps Broward College develop and prioritize its policy agenda and he co-leads community engagement efforts, including serving as the conduit between Broward College and local, statewide, and national organizations with shared interests. Mr. Haile also spends significant time serving the community-at-large. He currently serves as the Chair of the Board for Free the Slaves (a Washington DC based NGO established to eradicate slavery throughout the world), serves on the Board of Leadership Florida, serves as the chief liaison between the Chancellor for the Florida College System and the graduates of the Chancellor’s Leadership Seminar, and he co-chairs and co-founded the Arizona State University Alumni Group of Florida. He has also chaired and served on numerous other boards.

ICABA, one of South Florida’s 100 Most Accomplished Blacks in Healthcare and Law (2009)

Gold Coast Magazine, 40 Under 40 (2009) (inaugural edition)

South Florida Legal Guide, Up and Comer (2009 – 2010)

CNN Headline News as Comcast Newsmaker (2008)

Success South Florida Magazine as one of the "40 Under 40" Most Influential Black Business Professionals (2008)

South Florida Business Journal’s Up & Comers Award – Legal Category (2008) – Only one winner is selected from the tri-county area

Florida Trend Legal Elite, Up and Comer (2008)

Urban League Gennext Momentum Award Winner (2008) – inaugural winner

Recognized by Gold Coast Magazine as prominent South Floridian (2007)

PRESENTATIONS

Various engagements on leadership

Various engagements on higher education law and policy

Various engagements on timely local, state, and national political issues

Various engagements on managing an in-house legal department

Various engagements on human trafficking

PUBLICATIONS

Co-author, “The Constitutional Implications of Government Funding for Florida’s Primary Voting Process: Is It Constitutionally Permissible to Publicly Fund the Two Major Parties’ Primaries to the Exclusion of All Other Political Parties?,” Nova Southeastern University Law Review, Volume 33 Book 1 (Fall 2008)

Co-author, “Cheney's Claims Could Expose Him to Suit,” American Constitutional Society For Law and Policy, July 5, 2007